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* [RFC PATCH] core_pattern: fix long parameters was truncated by core_pattern handler
@ 2010-07-29 12:42 Xiaotian Feng
  2010-07-29 13:31 ` Neil Horman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread
From: Xiaotian Feng @ 2010-07-29 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel
  Cc: linux-kernel, Xiaotian Feng, Alexander Viro, Andrew Morton,
	Oleg Nesterov, KOSAKI Motohiro, Neil Horman, Roland McGrath

We met a parameter truncated issue, consider following:
> echo "|/root/core_pattern_pipe_test %p /usr/libexec/blah-blah-blah \
%s %c %p %u %g %t 11 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890" > \
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

This is okay because the strings is less than CORENAME_MAX_SIZE.
"cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" shows the whole string. but
after we run core_pattern_pipe_test in man page, we found last
parameter was truncated like below:
	argc[10]=<12345678901234567890123456789012345678>

The root cause is core_pattern allows % specifiers, which need to be
replaced during parse time, but the replace may expand the strings
to larger than CORENAME_MAX_SIZE.

This patch expands the size of parsing array, and makes the cursor
out_end shift when we replace % specifiers.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
---
 fs/exec.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index e19de6a..e67e4b5 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_binfmt);
 
 /* format_corename will inspect the pattern parameter, and output a
  * name into corename, which must have space for at least
- * CORENAME_MAX_SIZE bytes plus one byte for the zero terminator.
+ * CORENAME_MAX_SIZE * 3 bytes because of % specifiers.
  */
 static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 {
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 	const char *pat_ptr = core_pattern;
 	int ispipe = (*pat_ptr == '|');
 	char *out_ptr = corename;
-	char *const out_end = corename + CORENAME_MAX_SIZE;
+	char *out_end = corename + CORENAME_MAX_SIZE;
 	int rc;
 	int pid_in_pattern = 0;
 
@@ -1478,6 +1478,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			/* uid */
 			case 'u':
@@ -1486,6 +1487,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			/* gid */
 			case 'g':
@@ -1494,6 +1496,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			/* signal that caused the coredump */
 			case 's':
@@ -1502,6 +1505,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			/* UNIX time of coredump */
 			case 't': {
@@ -1512,6 +1516,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			}
 			/* hostname */
@@ -1523,6 +1528,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			/* executable */
 			case 'e':
@@ -1531,6 +1537,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			/* core limit size */
 			case 'c':
@@ -1539,6 +1546,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
+				out_end += rc - 2;
 				break;
 			default:
 				break;
@@ -1836,7 +1844,7 @@ static int umh_pipe_setup(struct subprocess_info *info)
 void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	struct core_state core_state;
-	char corename[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE + 1];
+	char corename[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE * 3];
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	struct linux_binfmt * binfmt;
 	const struct cred *old_cred;
-- 
1.7.2


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2010-07-29 12:42 [RFC PATCH] core_pattern: fix long parameters was truncated by core_pattern handler Xiaotian Feng
2010-07-29 13:31 ` Neil Horman
2010-08-02 12:23   ` [RFC PATCH V2] " Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-02 13:50     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-03 10:59       ` Neil Horman
2010-08-20  9:22         ` [RFC PATCH v3] " Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-20  9:35           ` Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-20  9:35         ` Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-23 11:07           ` Neil Horman
2010-08-23 23:02             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-23 21:18           ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-24  6:18             ` Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-24  6:28               ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-24  9:42             ` [PATCH v4] " Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-24 22:47               ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-25  1:58                 ` Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-25  2:17                 ` [PATCH v5] " Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-02 14:30     ` [RFC PATCH V2] " Denys Vlasenko
2010-08-02 14:30       ` Denys Vlasenko

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